Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (4 page)

ska, El
bieta Ostrowska, Feliks Ostrowski, Mieczysław Pawłowski, Wiesław Polkowski, Waldemar Pomaski, Danuta Przyszłasz, Zofia Radecka, Jan Rakowicz (Radajewski), Kazimierz Rakowski, Janina Rendznerowa, Andrzej Rey, Janusz Rosiko
, Bogdan Rostropowicz, Nelli Turza
ska-Szymborska, Anna Sadkowska, Father Piotr Sasin, Jan Sidorowicz, Stanisław Sieradzki, Lucjan Sikora, Dr Krzysztof Stoli
ski, Tadeusz Sumi
ski, Tadeusz-Marian Szwejczewski, Professor Jerzy
widerski, Anna
wirszczy
ska, Bolesław Taborski, Tadeusz Tarmas, Helena Tyrankiewiczowa, Maria Umi
ska, Professor Wagner, Danuta Wardle-Wi
niowiecka, Andrew Weiss, Kazimierz Wołłk-Karaszewski, J. J. Wyszogrodski, Janusz Zadarnowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Hanna Zbirohowska-Ko
cia, and Professor Jerzy Zubrzycki.

As always, the turmoil of an author in the throes of writing and delivery demands enormous forbearance from friends, family and publishers. For their understanding, I offer appropriate apologies and, on completion, a sheepish grin.

I am not quite sure how best to advise the would-be reader on exploring this book. But if a linear narrative may be likened to a chain made up of links, the present construction may be better likened to a more complex building made up of several blocks and of many bricks. I am tempted to liken
Rising ’44
to one of the barricades which the insurgents built from paving stones and which featured so prominently in their extraordinary exploits. At all events, the accompanying diagram may help to clarify the literary architecture. As both sides learned to their cost, the best way of surmounting one of these barricades is not necessarily by frontal assault.

N
ORMAN
D
AVIES
15 April 2003

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PART ONE
Before the Rising

CHAPTER I
: The Allied Coalition
CHAPTER II
: The German Occupation
CHAPTER III
: Eastern Approaches
CHAPTER IV
: Resistance

PART TWO
The Rising

CHAPTER V
: The Warsaw Rising
Outbreak
Impasse
Attrition
Junction
Finale

PART THREE
After the Rising

CHAPTER VI
:
Vae Victis
: Woe to the Defeated, 1944–45
CHAPTER VII
: Stalinist Repression, 1945–56
CHAPTER VIII
: Echoes of the Rising, 1956–2000
Interim Report

Appendices

Notes
Notes to Capsules
Notes to Appendices

Index

August 1944:
Barnes Lodge, King’s Langley
(King’s Langley Local History Society).
The Prudential Building, Warsaw
(Karta Institute, Warsaw)

Britain’s First Allies:
Gen. Sikorski
(Sikorski Institute, London).
The President
(Polish Underground Movement (1939–1945) Study Trust, London).
Premier ‘Mick’
(Sikorski Institute, London).
The Commanderin-Chief
(Polish Underground Movement (1939–1945) Study Trust, London).
Gen. Tatar, ‘Tabor’
(Polish Underground Movement (1939–1945) Study Trust, London).
Count Raczy
ski, Ambassador, with Foreign Minister Romer
(Sikorski Institute, London).
‘Salamander’, convalescent after poisoning
(Polish Underground Movement (1939–1945) Study Trust, London)